Coverage › CVE-2020-3118
CVE-2020-3118 Unmapped
Cisco IOS XR Software Discovery Protocol Format String Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Cisco — IOS XR
- Description (CISA)
- Cisco IOS XR improperly validates string input from certain fields in Cisco Discovery Protocol messages. Exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute code with administrative privileges or cause a reload on an affected device.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-134
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3118
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-3118. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-134) — here is why — and does not guess.
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